I think it's up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.

It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.

You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up.

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them.

An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.

Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.

A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say if you're not in the room.

Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census', and people fall asleep.

Socializing on the internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.

There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.

Every man should believe in something.If not..he would doubt everything, even himself.

She had needed kindness before, and had received none. Now it was too late, and she did not know what to do with it.

Will wrestled with his conscience, grappled it to the ground and sat on it until he couldn't hear a squeak out of it.

This city is dying of rabies. Is the best I can do to wipe random flecks of foam from its lips?

I do not believe in God, angels and the hereafter.

When you find that you're unhappy, know that it's because you're not loving properly.

Without a sincere and diligent effort in every area of obedience, there will be no sucessful mortification of any one besetting sin.

I hate it when people quote me on the internet, claiming I said things that I never actually said.

Who are the true philosophers? Those whose passion is to love the truth.

I live 50 miles from London and we've got some of the highest levels of teenage and childhood poverty in the country. It's disgusting. Just because it's a rural area, it gets forgotten.